Showing posts with label #sochi2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #sochi2014. Show all posts
2/19/14
2/13/14
2/11/14
2/6/14
2/5/14
2/4/14
John Carlos, Olympian who protested the treatment of African-Americans in 1968, offers advice to gay athletes and their allies
From Towleroad:
"They’re going to risk condemnation. They’re going to ridicule him in the early stages, until society wakes up and realizes that the individual is right and had a right to speak out for the issues that concern his life as well as so many others."
Carlos also has high praise for Billie Jean King and is glad that people of all races and sexual orientations see his act as an inspiration:
"Well, it makes me feel good. You know, we can’t put labels or tags on one another. All we can say is that we’re just human beings. And we should try to remember, regardless of what your ethnic background is, or what your sexual preference is, or what type of food you like, it doesn’t matter. It just matters that we all have the right to be who we are in this society. And we need to keep fighting to make sure that there’s an even playing field for all people that are being oppressed."
1/31/14
1/30/14
Quote of the day: "There are 5 Olympic rings but only 4 openly gay Winter Olympians"
There are 5 Olympic rings but only 4 openly gay Winter Olympians-- Kevin Liles-USA TODAY Sports
Something from Russia...this one with love
I found this cute JPEG on tumblr, done by a Russian artist.
1/25/14
Saving face: there are reports that Russian MPs are considering revising their anti-gay laws before the Sochi Olympics
From Gay Star News:
Russian MPs from several political parties have submitted a proposal to amend the country’s anti-gay propaganda law, according to Queer Russia.
If the proposal is signed into law, it would ban the promotion of any sexual relations to underage children. Currently only the promotion of ‘non-traditional’ sexual relations, such as same-sex partnerships, is forbidden.
MPs from the country’s political parties United Russia, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party submitted the proposal on Friday (24 January).
The bill would exclude the term ‘non-traditional’ from the title of Article 6.21 in the Code of Administrative Offences, ‘Propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’. Similar amendments are also proposed in two other laws relating to the protection and rights of children in Russia
1/21/14
Beyond the protests of LGBT activists, Putin faces many formidable challenges in making the Sochi Winter Olympics a success
Leon Aron writes:
Putin’s expectations for a triumph may run into a stone wall of reality. Many are bracing for a disruption, even disaster. The Sochi games will be the first Winter Olympiad held in the subtropics and not unrelatedly, the gap between what has been needed by way of infrastructure and what was already available had never been as deep and wide. It is also beset with protest; it’s the first Olympics to be held in an area of mass expulsion of an indigenous people, whose descendants accuse Russia of genocide. Perhaps most hazardously of all, it is the first (and almost certainly the last) Olympiad to be held within a few hundred miles of a low-intensity but deadly jihad. Indeed, this is without a doubt the most precarious Olympiad ever attempted, for reasons of geography, climate and infrastructure—but also for the way the regime has chosen to address these challenges. Will Putin’s triumphalist narrative prevail? Maybe.
12/21/13
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